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I don't know if this has been posted elsewhere, but there are shocking satellite photos of the cyclone-induced flooding in Burma/Myanmar here on the NASA site.

Click on the image for more background info on what you're seeing here:

On April 15 (top), rivers and lakes are sharply defined against a backdrop of vegetation and fallow agricultural land. The Irrawaddy River flows south through the left-hand side of the image, splitting into numerous distributaries known as the Mouths of the Irrawaddy. The wetlands near the shore are a deep blue green. Cyclone Nargis came ashore across the Mouths of the Irrawaddy and followed the coastline northeast. The entire coastal plain is flooded in the May 5 image (bottom). The fallow agricultural areas appear to have been especially hard hit. For example, Yangôn (population over 4 million) is almost completely surrounded by floods. Several large cities (population 100,000-500,000) are in the affected area. Muddy runoff colors the Gulf of Martaban turquoise.
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 07:43:58 AM EST
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sheesh, that looks major league bad. But unless the UN gets to do the aid thing, you can guess that anything that arrives will go straight for preferential use by the elites and their army.

The people are a mere administrative inconvenience to authoritarians.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 09:18:46 AM EST
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